In a previous post, “The Cosplayers of Japan’s Comic-Con: Comiket,” I showed off some of the amazing cosplay here at Tokyo’s Comic Market Comiket. Now, I’d like to show you my experience of the entire convention!

THE GOOD

1. ORGANIZATION – This is Japan, so organization and social order is a pretty big deal. As such, you can expect to have very detailed lines telling you where to go and for what exhibits. But I’m not just talking about signs, I’m talking about roped off pathways that literally force you into one direction or another. There will be no escape once you start going one way. Mwahaha.

Above you can see that you can’t just walk around cosplaying…you must go straight to a specific cosplay area and literally, “set up shop,” there. In addition, they were quartered off from the rest of the walkways so as to not…